Nikolay Sergeevitsj Fokin News
opera singer, music teacher
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2016-09-15 09:20:00
[…] (no one else does what he does). I don´t know what "Brostjour" means but that´s the name of his solo in the First Part, with completely monotonous cello music by Olafur Arnalds. In the Second Part we saw a strange hybrid: the famous Saint-Saëns "Death of the Swan" where one sees the (uncredited) Fokin choreography (with some changes) by Carolina Basualdo (from Bahía Blanca´s Ballet del Sur) interspersed with Lil Buck´s own version; the final thirty seconds are danced by both, each with a different choreography. I felt it was more a curiosity than a viable alternative, but it isn´t a parody, like last year´s Trockadero spoof. Good dancing by Basualdo, and in the only live performance of the evening, fine playing […]
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2016-05-18 13:52:32
Yoncheva will star at La Scala in Zeffirelli’s Boheme
[…] an orchestra dedicated to contemporary music in Paris. The Ballet Season, which is the first one for Director Mauro Bigonzetti, is the first step along a path of progression for the Corps de Ballet of La Scala. The titles increase from six to seven, in addition to the Ballet School show, and for the second year in a row, Opening Night brings another first, Coppélia by Bigonzetti with Roberto Bolle. The historical choreographies of Balanchine, Fokin, Tetley and MacMillan are bolstered by the innovation of Eugenio Scigliano, and for the first time a piece choreographed by artists from the Corps de Ballet, who are engaged in an unprecedented challenge. Also returning is Swan Lake by Alexei Ratmansky, an artistic reconstruction of the choreography of Petipa and Ivanov. There is a considerable element of pride in the quality of the music: the ballets will be conducted by maestros such as Zubin […]
2016-03-07 06:02:00
[…] The start came from a great composer, Carl Maria von Weber, famous for his Romantic opera (the first so-called) "Der Freischütz", but also for a lovely piano piece, "Invitation to the dance": slow introduction, waltz and slow coda; it became famous in its inspired orchestration by Hector Berlioz, and many decades later it was the basis of Fokin´s gorgeous ballet "The spectre of the rose", danced by the likes of Nijinsky and Nureyev. The reading was rather tame, but from then on things picked up. I would have preferred a more imaginative choice than Johann Strauss II´s "Blue Danube" (or if you prefer the whole appellation, "On the strands of the beautiful blue […]
2015-09-08 01:14:00
[…] convincing and splendidly danced. About 35 years ago I had one of the most hilarious nights ever when I saw the parodies of Les Ballets Trockadero of Montecarlo, men doing women roles with fantastic technique in farcical transformations of famous ballets. Then and now, a high point was "Death of the Swan", distortion of Fokin´s original on the famous Saint-Saëns cello melody; in this version the swan loses feathers until its (his? hers?) last breath. Raffaele Morra represented the Trockadero troupe in a version that was indeed funny, though I found it grosser than the older one. The evergreen Second Act Pas de Deux from "Giselle" (Perrot/Coralli) […]
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